- Patient Marie Morgan disappears, just as Samir is about to declare his feelings to her, in front of the Maritime Hospital fish tank. Night nurse Samir begins his inquiry.
- Patient Marie Morgan disappears, just as Samir is about to declare his feelings to her, in front of the Maritime Hospital fish tank. Night nurse Samir Lartigas begins his inquiry... The short Marie M. is a symbolic approach of the search for the loved one and the choices that involve love. This fantastic and romantic tale explores the myth of the Mari-Morgan mermaids in a realistic and everyday place.—Anonymous
- Marie Morgan (Gabriella Ostier), a young pretty woman with a red housecoat, sits behind the fish tank of the lounge of the maritime hospital. While Samir Lartigas (Nicolas Cazalé), the night nurse in white, removes a coffee of the distributor, she announces him that she leaves today. Samir is utterly dejected by the news but turns around towards her with a smile. Their eyes meet. They are tender and loving. Samir removes the second coffee. Promptly, he turns around again to reveal his feelings to Marie Morgan but she has disappeared !
The wall clock indicates 5:55 am. Samir goes to the room 554 : a red suitcase sits on the desk and a red cell phone on the night table. The name MARIE MORGAN is written on the patients chart at the end of the bed, While he steps back from the room, a day nurse (Odile Louis) hits him with her chariot. She is looking for Marie Morgan who must take her drugs on an empty stomach. Samir does not listen to her and keeps on running in the corridor. He stops : In the last room opened, a young woman (Amélie Robin) is standing three-quarters of back-with the same hairstyle and red housecoat as Marie Morgan. She turns her head to Samir. She is not Marie Morgan. While watching Samir's two cups of coffee, she asked him nicely if this is for her. But Samir is no longer there.
Later, the director threats Samir to fire him if he does not find her. Indeed, Marie Morgan was under his responsibility all night and he is the last one who saw her. Absorbed by his search, Samir comes back to Marie Morgan's room and takes a deep breath in her red scarf. He finds her red cell phone and discover a photo of him feeding Japanese fish in the lounge. He smiles. He understands that he is not indifferent to Marie Morgan.The next photo shows the ocean. Samir is exhausted after his sleepless night. He sits on the Marie Morgan's bed. The wind moves the curtains. Samir caress the bed. He relaxes. His breathing becomes heavier, deeper, slower. The director of the hospital, walks in the corridor with a doctor who advises him to leave Samir until the next day to find her. The director and doctor go in front of the open room without turning or stopping while Sam is sleeping.
Surprise ! Marie Morgan, barefoot, wearing a beautiful red dress is sitting beside Samir asleep. Samir wakes up. They look tenderly. They are getting closer. They are about to kiss.The wind moves more strongly curtains. Suddenly the door slams violently. Samir wakes up. He dreamed. Marie Morgan's cell phone indicates 6:50 pm. He walks to the bathroom and closes the door behind him. The director open the door of the room stocks a head and closes the door.
The night fell. The clock on the wall of the lounge indicates 4:55 am. Samir is sitting on the edge of a bench closer to the fish tank. He seems hypnotized by the two Japanese fish. Bright red, the smaller fish stops and restarts. The bigger, white and red, approaches. The wall clock shows 5:55 am. Sam is still fixing the bigger fish in eyes..
Brief sound. Suddenly, Samir is in the fish's skin. Embodied in the bigger fish, our hero looks at the expressionless face of Samir, outside the fish tank. Our hero does not realize right away that he became a fish. His breath gets heavy. Finally, our hero screams « No ! » : He comes back to his human body as if he were born for the second time. However, after a quick look of the empty and dreary lounge and with full knowledge of the facts, he decides to plunge again his eyes in the eyes of the bigger fish. Our hero Samir is definitely embodied in the bigger fish. Our hero looks at the disembodied Samir.
Suddenly, Samir's body disappears. Embodied in the fish, our hero is stunned. But...the smaller bright red fish approaches and whispers with love « You took your time » (voice of Marie Morgan). Happy and in love, our hero answers « Yes, but now I've found you and I won't let you go ». The day is entirely up into the lounge. Our two fish laugh and swim side by side towards the bottom of the fish tank, with the sky and see in background. The smaller (Marie Morgan) asks the bigger (Samir Lartigas) to come with her. She opens him the door of her secret garden : while the sounds of the hospital disappeared, the full sky appears and then the sea. The sounds of the sea goes crescendo with the sound of their laughs in the waves and the first notes of the original song devoted to mermaids.
Thank you to all the Mari-Morgans, the ocean fairies.
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